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In the early 1960s, Los Angeles' gay bar patrons knew of the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) as the producer of hilarious camp satires of popular movies. Less known was the fact that the GGRC was primarily a social group that got together on Sundays for horseback riding and brunch. Their first film venture appropriately titled Always on Sunday was such a hit that they eventually made three more films: The Roman Springs on Mrs. Stone, What Really Happened to Baby Jane?, and All About Alice. Rarely seen today and never widely shown outside Los Angeles' gay bars, these films, made at a time when our lives were universally portrayed as tragic, remain a unique affirmation of the pleasure and joy gay people take in their lives. Titles for this evening's program include: Always on Sunday, The Roman Springs on Mrs. Stone, and What Really Happened to Baby Jane?.
This spoof of Never on Sunday was the first film made by the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC), a clique of gay men who frequented a Los Angeles gay bar, The Brownstone, for Sunday brunch.
This spoof of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) centers on all of the female characters being portrayed by drag queens in indomitable i.e. very broad drag queen style, and that the film is presented largely as a silent movie.
Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films. What Really Happened to Baby Jane? is the GGRC take on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? — filmed only a few months after the original’s release.
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